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How a March Madness hero became a Muncie resident

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MUNCIE, Ind. — It was a few weeks after he and his teammates at Florida Golf Coast became a national story, and a few people recognized him from all of the dunks. If you’ve followed the NCAA Tournament even casually over the last decade, you probably remember "Dunk City."

And so in the spring of 2013 at the Buffalo Wild Wings on McGalliard Rd., five or six guys approached Chase Fieler and asked to take a picture. He had been all over TV that month, throwing down dunk after dunk as Florida Gulf Coast upset No.